Lannan Readings & Conversations
Lawrence Weschler
with Oliver SacksWednesday January 31 2007
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Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. His most recent work is Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences . Weschler, awarded a Lannan Award for Nonfiction in 1999, is currently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.
Oliver Sacks is a physician and author known for his elegantly written neurological case studies. His books include The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, and most recently, Uncle Tungsten and Oaxaca Journal.
